High School Quotes - Page 22

• My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Ghetto, School, College

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

  Rob Zombie

  Fun, School, Dawn

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• Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

  Helen Fisher

  School, College, Men

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• Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent.

  Greg Graffin

  School, Dry, Taught

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• I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

  Chris Hardwick

  School, Chess, Fifth Grade

  "Self-help for nerds: advice from comedian Chris Hardwick". www.wired.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Home, School, Parent

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• we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if it had finally broken down, the sudden click of the hand jumping three for four notches would startle me when it came.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wall, Moving, School

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

  Stephen King

  Dream, School, Doors

  Stephen King (2016). “Cujo”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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• High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

  Stephen King

  School, Thinking, Important

  Stephen King (2000). “Carrie”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Teacher, Writing, School

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great sense of humor he can have.

  Lorrie Moore

  Girlfriend, Writing, School

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• Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Baby, School

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• At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

  Stephen King

  School, Class, World

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, School, Animal

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.159, Random House

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• I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Eye, Artist

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• Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He is my neighbor to the north, of course. Big John's son Little John did badly in high school, and the police caught him selling dope. So he joined the Army while the Vietnam War was going on. And the first time he came home in uniform, I never saw Big John so happy, because it looked to him as though Little John was all straightened out and would amount to something. But then Little John came home in a body bag.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, War, Home

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Bluebeard”, Dial Press

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• We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.

  Ann Brashares

  School, Thinking, House

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.989, Delacorte Press

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• The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.

  Conan O'Brien

  School, Weekend, Two

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• Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Daughter, School, Snow

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• High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.

  Frank Portman

  School, Penalties, Transgression

  Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.15, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

  Scott Westerfeld

  School, Fire, Track

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Midnighters #3: Blue Noon”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

  Deb Caletti

  Real, School, Rocks

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.

  Khaled Hosseini

  School, Kids, Son

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.11, A&C Black

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• Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?

  Sarah Vowell

  School, Evil, Vortex

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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